Modernism and the Law

Exploring critical legal issues and cases of the period-from Oscar Wilde''s prosecution for gross indecency to legal bans on such publications as D.H. Lawrence''s Lady Chatterley''s Lover , Radclyffe Hall''s The Well of Loneliness , and James Joyce''s Ulysses-Modernism and the Law is the first book to survey the legal contexts of transatlantic Anglo-American modernist culture. Written by one of the leading authorities on the subject, the book covers such topics as: Obscenity laws and censorship Copyrights, moral rights, and the public domain Patronage and literary piracy Privacy, defamation, publicity, and blackmail Including an annotated list of relevant statutes, treaties, and cases, this is an essential read for scholars and students coming to the subject for the first time as well as for experienced scholars.>

Product details

• Authors: Robert Spoo, Robert (University of Tulsa Spoo
• Assisted by: Sean Latham (Editor), Gayle Rogers (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781474275811
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-7581-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: New Modernisms; New Modernisms
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism